Breeders’ Cup World Championships October 24-25: Trainer Stats

*All trainers in the all-time top 10 in money won by Breeders’ Cup runners have horses entered in the 25th World Championships.

* No trainer has won two races in consecutive years with the same horses. Bob Baffert can do that this year with 2007 Sprint winner Midnight Lute in the Sprint and 2007 Juvenile Fillies winner Indian Blessing in the Filly & Mare Sprint. Indian Blessing could become the first horse to win two different Breeders’ Cup races.

OAK TREE’S PICK SIX CARRYOVER DEFERRED UNTIL SUNDAY’S CLOSE

ARCADIA, Calif. (Oct. 23, 2008) – Favorites fell in each of Oak Tree’s Pick Six races on Thursday, resulting in a carryover of $66,214 which will be deferred until Sunday’s closing day of the 26-day meet and after the Breeders’ Cup World Championships are conducted on Friday and Saturday at Santa Anita.

With the meet ending on Sunday, the winning pool in the Pick Six will be distributed to those with the most winners if nobody is able to correctly select all six.

Illustrative of the topsy-turvy afternoon Thursday was when Rafael Bejarano drove 7-1 shot Island Hop between horses to overtake pace-setter Sheza Maneater by a neck and end a seven-race losing streak when upsetting five rival fillies in the $50,576 allowance feature at one-mile over the track’s Pro-Ride synthetic surface.

Stable Notes, Thursday, October 23rd

GEORGIE BOY, GOMEZ TOGETHER AGAIN IN DAMASCUS STAKES

Garrett Gomez reunites with Georgie Boy in Saturday’s Damascus Stakes for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs. It marks the first race for the California-bred son Tribal Rule since March 15, when he won the Grade II San Felipe Stakes, and the first ride for Gomez on Georgie Boy since they won the Grade I Del Mar Futurity together last year. Gomez, whose mounts have earned more than $17.7 million to date this year, is seeking his third straight national money-winning title. He leads runner-up Robby Albarado by more than $2.2 million.

“Georgie Boy has been doing everything great,” said Gomez, who has worked the gelding owned and bred by George Schwary and trained by Kathy Walsh several times en route to his comeback. “We’ve tried to get enough air in him to make sure he’s fit, without going too fast. He’s a classy individual and he’s doing good.”